Bug 1400496

Summary:	CVE-2016-3044 kernel: Infinite loop vulnerability in KVM [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	25	CC:	cz172638, gansalmon, ichavero, itamar, jforbes, jonathan, jwboyer, kernel-maint, labbott, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab, ppandit
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2017-02-01 12:09:12 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	1400495

Description Adam Mariš 2016-12-01 11:37:56 UTC

This is an automatically created tracking bug!  It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.

For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.

For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs

When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s).  This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.

Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.

NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora. While only
one tracking bug has been filed, please correct all affected versions at
the same time.  If you need to fix the versions independent of each other,
you may clone this bug as appropriate.

Reproducers, if any, will remain confidential and never be made public, unless done so by the security team.

[bug automatically created by: add-tracking-bugs]

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-12-01 11:38:09 UTC

Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=1400495,1400496

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for CVE-2016-3044

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

======

Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2016-12-01 14:11:37 UTC

This issue was reported by IBM as fixed in June 2016, last listed kernel series containing this issue was 4.2 and the CVE was assigned at the beginning of March. Unless this information is incorrect, Fedora 23 has been fixed since 2016-01-20 with kernel-4.3.3-301.fc23, and Fedora 24 and Fedora 25 were never vulnerable.

Comment 3 Prasad Pandit 2017-02-01 12:09:12 UTC

That's right, this issue affects KVM on Power-8 platform; And was fixed by upstream commit

  -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/ccec44563b18a0ce90e2d4f332784b3cb25c8e9c

Which is merged in the upstream kernel from 4.5 release.

Closing this bug as fedora kernels are not affected.